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Another well funded and powerful organization
which has strong ties to George Soros
is the Service Employees International Union, known better by their
initials - SEIU. Along with the AFL-CIO, SEIU backed Barack Obama
with a huge influx of cash during his 2008 Presidential campaign and
is credited with bringing in near unanimous support at the polls.

With 1.8 million
members across the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico, the
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) ranks among the largest
and fastest-growing unions in North America. It has more than 300
local affiliates and 25 state councils. Giving voice to its wish to
radically transform an American society that it deems rife with
inequity, SEIU’s
mission is
"to improv[e] the lives of workers and their families and creat[e] a
more just and humane society.” Classifying Women and minorities as
the most aggrieved victims of discrimination and maltreatment, SEIU
notes that 56 percent of its members are women and 40 percent are
“people of color.”

SEIU members work
in four service industry “divisions”:

Hospital Systems:As America’s largest union of health care workers, SEIU
represents more than 900,000 caregivers and hospital employees,
including some 110,000 nurses and 40,000 doctors in public,
private, and non-profit medical institutions.

Long-Term Care:
SEIU is the largest union of long-term care workers (including
350,000 home care workers and 150,000 nursing home employees) in the
United States.

Public Services:The second largest union of public service employees, SEIU
represents 850,000 local and state government workers, public school
employees, bus drivers, and child care providers.

Property
Services: SEIU is the largest property services union, with
225,000 workers who clean, maintain, and protect commercial and
residential office buildings.

The current
President of SEIU is the former New Leftist
Andrew Stern, who advanced to the Union’s top post in 1996 when
his predecessor,
John Sweeney, became President of the AFL-CIO. At the outset of
his tenure with SEIU, Stern told his members that he expected "every
leader at every level of this union -- from the international
President to the rank-and-file member -- to devote five working days
this year to political action."

In effect, this was
a mandate for those union leaders to work in support of the
Democratic Party. Stern sits on the Executive Committee of
America Coming Together, a Democratic Party auxiliary funded by
George Soros. Moreover, SEIU is a major component of the
so-called “Shadow
Democratic Party,” a nationwide network of more than five-dozen
unions, nonprofit activist groups, and think tanks whose agendas are
ideologically to the left, and which are engaged in campaigning for
the Democrats. Designated as a “527
organization” (so named in reference to Section 527 of the U.S.
tax code), SEIU is not required to register as a “political
organization” with the Federal Election Commission, and consequently
may collect as much “soft money” as it wishes, with no limits on
how much it may receive from individuals or corporations. This
money, in turn, is funneled to Democratic candidates, political
action committees, and other “527” groups pursuing similar agendas.

In November 2003,
SEIU endorsed then-presidential candidate
Howard Dean, sending thousands of volunteers to work on his
behalf in states where early primaries were scheduled. After Dean
dropped out of the race in early 2004, Andrew Stern played a major
role in persuading the Democratic presidential nominee,
John Kerry, to pick as his running mate Senator
John Edwards. As of June 2004, SEIU had already
committed $65 million toward the effort to defeat incumbent
President George W. Bush in that year's November election. (This
money was used to finance voter registration drives, voter
“education” initiatives, get-out-the-vote campaigns, and the efforts
of some 2,000 political organizers working full-time against
President Bush in 17 key battleground states. Moreover, the Union
pledged to supply 50,000 “volunteers” from its membership rolls just
prior to, and on, election day.)

SEIU’s membership
growth is heavily dependent on the public (i.e., government) sector,
where 37.2 percent of employees are currently unionized (as compared
to only 8.2 percent of private sector workers). Since the middle of
the twentieth century, union membership in the private sector has
declined by more than 80 percent; only in the public sector have
unions grown during this period. Because this is precisely the niche
in which SEIU dwells, the Union has a vested interest in helping to
elect Democratic leftists who will press to make government
ever-larger, so that it can produce an ever-increasing number of
union-dues-paying jobs for welfare workers, socialized medicine
healthcare workers, Medicare nursing home workers and the like.
(SEIU advocates a taxpayer-funded, government-run program of
socialized medicine, which it dubs “increase[d] access to quality,
affordable health care.”) Under Andrew Stern’s leadership between
1996 and 2006, SEIU membership grew by nearly 900,000.

Representing more
immigrants than any other union, SEIU also seeks to “ensure [that]
immigrant workers have a shot at the American dream.” Toward that
end, it supports the legalization of illegal aliens, whom it
characterizes as “hard-working, tax-paying immigrants.” SEIU is a
sponsoring organization of the
Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride Coalition, which seeks to secure
amnesty for illegal aliens, and favors policy reforms that will
diminish or eliminate future restrictions on immigration. SEIU views
such immigrants as a potentially plentiful source of future SEIU
dues-paying members.

As the largest
union of child care workers in America (representing more than
200,000 people who work in child care and early education), SEIU
seeks to “improve funding for child care and early education, and
expand parents' access to affordable, quality care.” In short, it
favors the expansion of taxpayer-funded programs that finance such
services.

Viewing the United
States as a nation where discrimination against minorities and women
is widespread, SEIU endorsed
Pay Equity Now! -- a petition jointly issued in 2000 by the
National Organization for Women, the Philadelphia Coalition of
Labor Union Women, and the International Wages for Housework
Campaign -- to "expose and oppose U.S. opposition to pay equity" for
women. The petition
charged that: "[T]he U.S. government opposes pay equity -- equal
pay for work of equal value -- in national policy and international
agreements … [U]nderpaying women is a massive subsidy to employers
that is both sexist and racist."

To boost its effort
to create an ever-expanding supply of social activists and labor
union leaders, SEIU recently launched an “Institute for Change,”
which seeks “to advance social and economic justice by helping SEIU
locals develop their leaders, strengthen their organizations, and
increase the power of the labor movement.”

SEIU has also taken
a stand on matters of national security: In 2004, the Union endorsed
the Civil Liberties Restoration Act, which was designed to roll
back, in the name of protecting civil liberties, vital
national-security policies (such as the
Patriot Act) that had been adopted after the 9/11 terrorist
attacks.

At a
March 2007
meeting, Local 1199's executive vice president Steve Kramer spoke
enthusiastically about the role which the Communist Party USA played
in building up his union. When the Communist Party split in 1991,
several Local 1199 officials
took many comrades into the breakaway group, Committees of
Correspondence. One of those officials, Rafael Pizarro, also went on
to help found the
New Party, a Marxist organization that
Barack Obama joined in Chicago in 1995.

From 1972 to 1994,
the late
Merrilee Milstein -- a hard left activist who was married to
Communist Party member Brian Steinberg -- served as Local
1199's vice president.

SEIU has
extensive ties to the community organization
ACORN. Between 2005 and 2008, the union spent $9 million on
ACORN training programs and organizing services. Moreover,
SEIU hired ACORN founder
Wade Rathke to lead the union's national organizing programs.

In 2008 the SEIU
supported Barack Obama's presidential candidacy. The union spent
approximately $60.7 million to help elect Obama to the White House,
deploying some 100,000 pro-Obama volunteers during the campaign
(including 3,000 who worked on the election full time).

In recent years,
the SEIU has been plagued with a number of
financial scandals, In 2008, for instance, Tyrone Freeman, head
of the union's largest California local, misappropriated hundreds of
thousands of SEIU dollars. In response, the union ousted Freeman and
demanded that he return the money in question.

The Democratic Party
Hillary Clinton
Barack Obama
Eric Holder
Nancy Pelosi
Van Jones
Jim Wallis and Sojourners
John Kerry
America Coming Together
National Public Radio
American Constitution Society
Secretary of State Project
Democracy Alliance
Greenpeace
The Sierra Club
The Weather Underground
The Woods Foundation
The Annenberg Challenge

We believe that the Constitution of the
United States speaks for itself. There is no need to rewrite, change
or reinterpret it to suit the fancies of special interest groups or
protected classes.